McConnell denounces white supremacy in response to Tuberville controversy – By Alexander Bolton (The Hill) / July 11, 2023
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) Tuesday condemned white supremacy when asked about fellow Sen. Tommy Tuberville’s (R-Ala.) hesitancy to call out white nationalists.
“White supremacy is simply unacceptable in the military and in our whole country,” he told reporters when asked about Tuberville’s latest controversial comments on white nationalism.
Tuberville faced criticism earlier this year over an interview with an Alabama radio station, during which he said of white nationalists in the military, “I call them Americans.”
In an interview with CNN’s Kaitlan Collins Monday, he doubled down on that statement, saying, “My opinion of a white nationalist, if someone wants to call them white nationalist, to me is an American.”
